Attachment for cooki ng-stoves



J. A. TALPEY. Attachment for Cooking Stoves.

No. 53,503. Patented March 27. 1866.

UNITED STATES PATENT DFFICE.

JOSEPH A. TALPEY, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

ATTACHM ENT FOR COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,503, dated March 27,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. TALPEY, of Somerville, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and ImprovedAttachm entfor Cooking-Stoves; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which'willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention,showing its application. Fig.2 is a longitudinal vertical centralsection thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention consists in the construction of an apparatus to be appliedto a stove in the place usually occupied by the knee-joint or elbow,between the stove and the chimney,whereby light cooking, such asbroiling steak,boilin g tea-kettle, 850., may be done without building afire in the stove, which promotes comfort and economy, as will bepresently explained.

To enable others to understand my invention, I will proceed to describeit.

A represents the body or outside walls of the apparatus. They may bemade of anysuitable material and put together in any proper way to givethe apparatus an appropriate appearance. Through the bottom wall, andnear the front of the apparatus, a hole is made and a piece of pipe, at,attached in the usual or any suitable manner, which is intended to titover the flanges around the hole provided for the pipe in the top rearpart of a stove; and another piece of pipe, I), is secured to the rearend of the body A, which protrudes into the flue or chimney in the usualmanner.

B is a pan or drawer, which is fitted to slide on suitable guides on theinner side walls of the apparatus, so as to be capable of being drawnout or pushed into the body A. This serves the purpose of a fire box. Atits front part it is provided with suitable draft-openings c c. Thislire-box B is so situated as not to obstruct the passage of the productsof combustion from the stove to the chimney. The same pass through myapparatus under the fire-box B, which is situated up high enough toprevent this, and their exitis as unobstructed as if an ordinaryelbow-pipe were employed.

The top of the apparatus is provided with suitable holes and lids toadmit of cookingutensils being placed therein in the ordinary way. InFig. l a tea-kettle is shown as placed on the apparatus for the purposeof boiling water.

This apparatus will be found a most convenient attachment to a stove foruse in summer, when it is only necessary ofttimes, in order to prepare ameal, to boil a tea-kettle and broil or fry a piece of meat, and thiscan be done very easily and quickly with my apparatus and inwinter-time, when it is desirable to obtain as much heat as possiblefrom a stove, my apparatus will be found to be an excellent radiator ofheat.

I do not limit myself to any precise form of apparatus, nor to theparticular construction or arrangement of parts herein shown anddescribed, as I intend,in some instances, to place the tire-box lowerdown in the apparatus and leave an air-passage on its sides for carryingoff the heat, 850.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The cooking-stove attachment herein described, arranged in the place ofthe pipeelbow, as and for the purpose set forth,

JOSEPH A. TALPEY.

Witnesses FRANCIS RUssnLL, FREDERICK P. HAM.

